{"id":20270,"date":"2022-01-31T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/?p=20270"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:57:21","slug":"new-chair-for-steller-parent-group-needed-for-march-15-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/new-chair-for-steller-parent-group-needed-for-march-15-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chair for Steller Parent Group needed for March 15, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/New-Chair-Wanted-600x503.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/New-Chair-Wanted-600x503.png 600w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/New-Chair-Wanted-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/New-Chair-Wanted-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/New-Chair-Wanted-624x523.png 624w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/New-Chair-Wanted.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I will be stepping down as Chair of Steller Parent Group effective March 15, 2022.&nbsp; In order to ensure SPG is able to fulfill our commitments and continue to effectively support the Steller Community we need someone to step in as soon as possible!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of yet, we haven&#8217;t had anyone indicate interest in the position, so I thought I&#8217;d share the description of the position from the by-laws:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An election of Parent Group Officers and Representatives will take place at the September<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meeting. Any vacancies that develop will be filled by an interim election conducted at a Parent<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group meeting. No member may hold more than one office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair- the Chair\/Vice-Chair is a two (2)-year term<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepares agenda and conducts the monthly Parent Group meeting.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Conducts or delegates follow-up of meeting business as needed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Acts as liaison between Parent Group, Staff, and Operational Group, or is responsible for arranging an alternate to attend those meetings as needed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Makes reports to Operational Group and Staff, as well as the Steller Community Body <\/span>meetings as needed.<\/li>\n<li>Ensures that parents become acquainted with the volunteer opportunities at school pre-registration.<\/li>\n<li>Assists in recruiting and training of Advisory Group Parent Liaisons.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinates with treasurer to ensure <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at least three officers, two of whom must be the chair and the treasurer, shall be approved to sign checks and have their signatures on file <\/span>at the&nbsp; bank. The authorized check signers must not be related by blood or marriage or reside in the same household.<\/li>\n<li>Appoints a Budget Committee that includes the chair and treasurer upon election of officers.<\/li>\n<li>Ensures a financial review (audit) occurs at the end of the fiscal year, or whenever there is a transition between treasurers. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of the review is to certify the accuracy of <\/span>the books and records of the Treasurer&nbsp; by examining the financial transactions of the SPG and the procedures used to conduct those transactions.&nbsp; Financial Review Committee must be made up of three (3) or a qualified accountant and can include anyone within the unit that is NOT a signatory on the account or related to one.<\/li>\n<li>Establishes ad-hoc committees (including the Financial Committee) as needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ideally this work should be shared between a chair and a vice chair &#8211; so if we could find TWO people willing to step up that would be even better.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If we do not identify a new chair before the March 15th meeting SPG and all it&#8217;s financial functions will be temporarily suspended until we have a full board of chair, treasurer and secretary.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As always, I am happy to speak with anyone interested, or feel free to reach out to Dee Dee (secretary) or Claudia (treasurer) for more information about what is involved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Warm regards,<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Tschofen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be stepping down as Chair of Steller Parent Group effective March 15, 2022.&nbsp; In order to ensure SPG is able to fulfill our commitments and continue to effectively support the Steller Community we need someone to step in as soon as possible!&nbsp; As of yet, we haven&#8217;t had anyone indicate interest in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,80,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parent-group-2","category-parent-group-meetings","category-volunteer-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}